Big Data Articles
The emergence of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology may prove to be almost as significant an innovation as the internet itself. Blockchain offers a mechanism for the mediation of any transactions that previously would have required trusted third parties, while cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may eventually become a significant alternative to traditional "fiat" (e.g., government-backed) currencies. These technologies could eventually revolutionize the global banking infrastructure which has underpinned global commerce for centuries.
Posted August 09, 2017
We're still very much in the early days of artificial intelligence (AI). However, money is pouring into AI initiatives at astounding rates, and enterprises need to move at a deliberate speed to adopt and leverage AI across their systems, applications, and data.
Posted August 09, 2017
Kore Technologies, a provider of enterprise integration and e-commerce solutions, has introduced version 4.4 of Kourier Integrator Data Management Suite. The release enhances Kourier Integrator's support for RESTful Web Services with the addition of API Subscriptions and Swagger API documentation.
Posted August 09, 2017
ONgroup is releasing an improved version of the MV# Developer Studio, enhancing editing in .NET and making improvements to the user interface. MV# Developer Studio 2.0 has been enhanced to be a contemporary editor running in .NET that works for all MVON# customers.
Posted August 09, 2017
BlueFinity International is launching a new solution called Evoke, a new rapid business app development platform that will integrate with all major SQL and MultiValue databases. Designed for development and deployment of mobile, desktop and web apps, Evoke allows companies to build business apps more easily and to extend their enterprise applications to customers, employees, and partners.
Posted August 09, 2017
DFC Global, one of the largest providers of accessible consumer and commercial financial services in the world, will partner with Kofax, a provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile of business, to digitally transform its customer onboarding processes. DFC Global will deploy Kofax SignDoc e-signature capabilities into its point of sale solution, digitally transforming its loan origination process to speed processing, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and improve the customer experience for application, disclosure, and execution purposes.
Posted August 09, 2017
Lifeline Data Centers is being awarded a FedRAMP-Ready status by the United States government, which means Lifeline Data Centers will now be able to hold conversations with government agencies and private corporations about hosting sensitive data. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.
Posted August 09, 2017
Tableau Software has acquired ClearGraph, a Palo Alto startup founded in 2014 that enables data discovery and data analysis through natural language query technology.
Posted August 09, 2017
The EQT Mid Market US fund has acquired Data Intensity, a provider of mission-critical application and database managed services, from Audax Private Equity.
Posted August 09, 2017
TMMData, provider of the data integration and data preparation platform Foundation, has announced its advancement to business partner within the Adobe Exchange partner program for Adobe Experience Cloud. Through this relationship, joint TMMData and Adobe Analytics Cloud users will be provided with access to self-service resources and tools that enable them to access data from online and offline sources, and cloud or on-premises databases, and automate campaign setup for planning, management, evaluation, optimization and more.
Posted August 08, 2017
MongoDB Connector for BI is now certified by Tableau as a named connector, enabling users to visually analyze rich, JSON-like data structures associated with modern applications directly in MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
Posted August 08, 2017
Cohesity, a provider of hyperconverged secondary storage, is releasing Cohesity Orion 5.0, enabling companies to simplify administration, reduce overall data copies, accelerate search and retrieval, and dramatically lower storage costs. Cohesity Orion 5.0 provides a platform for data protection and archiving that spans on-premises and cloud infrastructure that can be managed through a simple, single-pane-of-glass user interface.
Posted August 03, 2017
Accenture has acquired Search Technologies, a Herndon, Virginia-based technology services firm specializing in the design, implementation and management of big data and search analytics. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Kamran Khan, president and CEO of Search Technologies, will lead a new Content Analytics team within Accenture Analytics.
Posted August 03, 2017
Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger has selected Pythian to help them migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. Pythian, a global IT services company that helps businesses adopt technologies to better compete, will help BBM Messenger move its mission-critical IT infrastructure for Android, iOS and Windows consumer BBM from BlackBerry on-prem data centers in Canada to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in Asia.
Posted August 03, 2017
IDERA, a provider of database, development, and test management tools, announced it is acquiring AquaFold, a provider of cross-platform database tools. AquaFold will join IDERA's database development and management portfolio, enabling the company to expand its multi-platform support.
Posted August 02, 2017
At the core of big data lie the three Vs - volume, velocity, and variety. What's required are solutions that can extract valuable insights from new sources such as social networks email, sensors, connected devices as sensors, the web, and smartphones. Addressing the three Vs are the combined forces of open source, with its rapid crowd-sourced innovation, cloud, with its unlimited capacity and on-demand deployment options, and NoSQL database technologies, with their ability to handle unstructured, or schema-less, data.
Posted August 02, 2017
Before Oracle introduced dual format memory architecture, it was very challenging to find the best approach to accelerate the performance of OLAP and OLTP in the same database. Fong Zhunag, brings us up to speed on how the new Oracle 12c In-Memory option brings the dual format memory structure into one single database, complete with case studies that define the approach.
Posted August 02, 2017
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are spotlighting Simon Pane, Pythian.
Posted August 02, 2017
Are you in the cloud yet? IOUG Press is looking for authors to write on Oracle Database in the cloud.
Posted August 02, 2017
Datameer is releasing Datameer 6.3, improving data analyst productivity, deepening connectivity into the business intelligence tooling ecosystem, and strengthening security and governance functionalities. New analytic functions, workbook operations, and improved big data sampling for interactive preparation design enhance self-service analyst access to data lakes.
Posted July 31, 2017
IBM announced solutions that connect mainframes to IBM's DS8880 family of primary all-flash storage systems, provide data encryption to ensure transactional, business intelligence and machine learning workloads used for businesses running IBM Z environments are protected if data is lost or compromised. IBM's DS8880 all flash helps clients deliver hybrid cloud environments by adding additional clouds supported.
Posted July 31, 2017
Thales, a provider of critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, is boosting its data security portfolio by making it easier for organizations to manage and secure their data in multi-cloud environments. Its advanced data security solutions integrate with the leading cloud service provider platforms from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, allowing users to establish strong safeguards around their sensitive data and applications in the cloud, satisfying compliance requirements and giving them greater control and flexibility.
Posted July 31, 2017
Continuing toward architecting a single cloud platform that is tuned for AI and data, IBM announced that it is expanding its network of cloud data centers with four new ones, including two in the UK (London), one in Australia (Sydney) and one in the U.S. (San Jose). The new facilities are designed to help clients build next-generation IoT, blockchain and AI applications by providing cloud infrastructure that is tuned for cognitive and big data.
Posted July 27, 2017
TIBCO Software, a provider of integration, API management, and analytics, is acquiring nanoscale.io, a provider of microservices technology and tooling. The acquisition extends and enhances TIBCO's leadership in the development of microservices and APIs that connect and integrate with a more expansive on-premises or hybrid cloud environment, and bolster its Connected Intelligence platform.
Posted July 27, 2017
It's been long acknowledged that data is the most precious commodity of the 21st-century business, and that all efforts and resources need to be dedicated to the acquisition and care of this resource. Lately, however, executives have become enamored with the vision of transforming their organizations into "data-driven" enterprises, which move forward into the future on data-supported insights. So, what, exactly, does the ideal "data-driven enterprise" look like?
Posted July 27, 2017
EnterpriseDB has released EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7. Part of the EDB Postgres Platform, EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 provides a new web client and tools to give DBAs greater ability to improve database performance across large installations.
Posted July 27, 2017
Cloudian, a provider of enterprise object storage systems, is launching a data management partners program to address the explosive growth of data centers. The program combines data management products with Cloudian's scalable storage to offer tested and proven solutions that enable enterprises to address current and future unstructured data growth challenges. Charter members of the program include Rubrik, Komprise, Evolphin, and CTERA Networks.
Posted July 27, 2017
Dataguise, a provider of data-centric audit and protection (DCAP), will exhibit its security platform at the AWS Summit in Chicago. Dataguise will showcase its security and compliance solution for the detection, protection, monitoring, and auditing of sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Redshift, and all databases supported by RDS.
Posted July 27, 2017
SAP is launching several new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that boost the new SAP Leonardo Platform as well as all SAP products. Part of the SAP Leonardo digital innovation system, these IoT solutions take advantage of advances in big data and analytics, the ability to connect people, things and business with the SAP Cloud Platform, and technologies such as machine learning to enable IoT and Industry 4.0 strategies across digital logistics, manufacturing, and asset management.
Posted July 26, 2017
SAP National Security Services, Inc., a U.S. based independent subsidiary of SAP, is receiving FedRAMP authorization for its SAP NS2 Secure Node with SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite - DoD. The SAP NS2 Secure Node is purpose-built to address every dimension of SaaS delivery for the Federal Government. SAP NS2 Secure Node with SAP SuccessFactors is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) suite.
Posted July 26, 2017
OutSystems has announced that its OutSystems 10 low-code rapid application development platform has achieved SAP certification as integrated with SAP S/4HANA and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP applications and solutions, enabling enterprises to more rapidly achieve their digital transformation goals and deliver better products and services to their customers.
Posted July 26, 2017
After becoming a platinum sponsor of the Cloud Foundry Summit, the premier event for enterprise app developers, SAP is making it known to users that its Cloud platform can handle any information or infrastructure as a service technology. SAP Cloud Platform leverages the openness of Cloud Foundry to provide customer choice of underlying infrastructure and programming models to shape the next-generation open enterprise platform.
Posted July 26, 2017
The increase in use of digital technology within enterprises is causing a massive influx of the amount of data produced from cloud, mobile, IoT, social media, and more. Because of this deluge, many companies are simply filtering data into holding grounds for native data they haven't had time to process, known as "data lakes," which often go unmanaged. This data that is of unknown origin, quality and context is untrustworthy for use in initiatives to increase revenues, decrease costs, and manage risk. In fact, rather than being a strategic corporate asset it becomes a business liability.
Posted July 26, 2017
Bradmark Technologies, Inc., a global provider of monitoring and performance management software for big data and transactional databases, is entering a reseller agreement with Database License Reseller, LLC, Inc., an SAP database technologies and legacy Sybase products and services provider. The agreement will allow Database License Reseller to offer Bradmark's Surveillance DB performance monitoring software to the SAP Sybase database market.
Posted July 26, 2017
Veritas Technologies, a provider of solutions for multi-cloud data management, has introduced the Integrated Classification Engine, a new technology to enable intelligence into data risks on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted July 26, 2017
JASK, which supports security analysts with artificial intelligence (AI), has announced the general availability of Trident, a new platform to help increase operational efficiency in security operations.
Posted July 26, 2017
RedPoint Global, a provider of data management and customer engagement technology, has announced a partnership with Bond Brand Loyalty, a customer engagement agency, to maximize loyalty engagement efforts across all channels.
Posted July 26, 2017
InfluxData has announced general availability of the InfluxData platform, version 1.3 of its open source platform built from the ground up for metrics and events.
Posted July 24, 2017
Southbank Software has launched its first product, dbKoda, an open source database development and administration platform, initially available for MongoDB. MongoDB was targeted first because of its rapid growth and popularity among full stack developers, according to Guy Harrison, Southbank's founder.
Posted July 24, 2017
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted July 19, 2017
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more
Posted July 19, 2017
The Independent Oracle User Group is excited to announce that PITSS has joined our community as an Alliance Partner. PITSS is the leader in digital transformation for legacy Oracle systems.
Posted July 19, 2017
Before Oracle introduced dual format memory architecture, it was very challenging to find the best approach to accelerate the performance of OLAP and OLTP in the same database.
Posted July 19, 2017
Dremio has announced its launch in the data analytics market with the availability of the Dremio Self-Service Data Platform. According to Dremio, its platform allows users to be independent and self-directed in their use of data, while accessing data from a variety of sources at scale.
Posted July 19, 2017
Seeking to protect inventors, innovation and American jobs, eight top technology companies have joined together to form the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA), dedicated to supporting balanced patent policy.
Posted July 19, 2017